MRO Purchasing & Inventory Specialist

Henkel • Bowling Green, KY

1d • $21 - $24 • Onsite

About The Position

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow. This position is with our Consumer Brands business unit – where we empower our employees to bring the best Laundry & Home Care and Hair products to people around the world. Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.

Requirements

• Strong cross-functional communication skills to support maintenance and production execution and inventory control.
• Ability to independently analyze and resolve conflicts, material constraints, and operational issues and implement proactive solutions.
• High attention to detail in SAP data management, inventory tracking, and reporting.
• Ability to work independently in a structured environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Solid understanding of maintenance processes, stock movements.
• Experience with SAP and Microsoft Office Excel, for purchasing, inventory, and material management.
• Must be a team player, excellent analytical skills, and strong organizational skills with high attention to detail with the ability to accurately manage and analyze large volumes of data.

Responsibilities

• Verify accuracy of purchase requisitions and accurately place purchase orders, such as OTP (one-time-purchases), limits, internal order-linked, expedited, and services.
• Communicate with supplies for RFQs (request for quotes), ETA, expediting, and delivery discrepancies.
• Update the reorder report and Open PO tracker accordingly.
• Communicate with requestor of the PO placement and delivery; keeping them informed of any supplier delays, obsolescence, or substitutions.
• Verify accuracy and approve invoice payments; communicate with AP as necessary.
• Obtain and file all relevant documentation according to document retention policies.
• Coordinate with Material Planners to address constraints and support on-time order fulfillment.
• Identify and resolve purchase order discrepancies, material shortages, and capacity issues with cross-functional teams.
• Perform routine stock cycle counts to maintain accurate inventory levels.
• Support SAP data maintenance, process improvements.
• Communicate production updates, schedule changes, and constraints to production and key stakeholders.
• Investigate outages, process goods issued to cost centers, perform RTS (return-to-stock) transactions in SAP.
• Monitor make-in-house material; perform physical and systematic inventory adjustments.
• Participate in daily cycle counting and year-end full inventory.
• Perform all relevant transactions in SAP for reconciliation.
• Check repair cart daily; retrieve and prep material for shipment.
• Communicate with internal maintenance repair personnel and with external repair suppliers.
• Notify vendor and obtain RMA; tag, measure, weigh and package material
• Complete all proper documentation (out-for-repair forms, carrier shipping forms); transport material to Logistics.
• Place repair POs accordingly and/or execute inventory adjustments as needed.
• Update repair log and repair/warranty tracker.
• Download daily TBM (Time-Based- Maintenance) and HYG (hygiene) work order requests report.
• Update daily WO tracker utilizing SAP and various reports such as Vendor-Master, Stock Report, and Open PO Report.
• Determine availability of requested material to fulfil kits; pick and pack material; perform goods-issue movement in SAP; stage kit accordingly, and update location in SAP and daily tracker.
• Follow strict guidelines for the sanitization and packaging

Benefits

• Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Work-Life Balance: Paid time off including sick time, vacation time and holiday time
• Financial: 401k matching, employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares, annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
• Family Support: 12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertility support, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderly care, and scholarships
• Career Growth: skill development programs, promotional opportunities and tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed